"Moojin (無眞)" is the starting point of work; by questioning and deconstructing (無, Moo) things that have solidified as dominant values and belief systems (眞, Jin) of society, Moojin Brothers recreate the "human-environment system" of the contemporary era. Humans who reveal themselves through the images of persons and collective voices of those engulfed in the misery of life, and the world heavily armed with common sense and economic rationality form the basis of the artists’ works. They thereupon shed light on those who survive, rearrange collected stories, and address the problems of today’s world. Furthermore, the artists document discourse on technological and environmental risks, and reconstruct new images from it. Moojin Brothers experiment with an expansive range of media in accordance with the concepts and themes of their works, utilizing the methods that they have acquired from various contemporary channels.
‘무진(無眞)’은 작업의 시작점이다. 세간의 지배적인 가치와 믿음체계로 굳어져버린 것들을(眞) 의심하고 해체시켜(無) 동시대의 ‘인간-환경 시스템’을 재구성한다. 삶의 비참함에 매몰된 개인의 모습과 집단의 목소리로 드러나는 인간, 그리고 공통의 상식과 경제적 합리성으로 중무장 된 세계가 작업의 기반이 된다. 이를 바탕으로 잔존하는 인물을 조명하고, 수집된 이야기들을 재배치하며, 현재의 문제의식을 풀어나간다. 또한 기술과 환경의 문제들에 대한 담론을 기록하며 그로부터 새로운 이미지를 재구축한다. 동시대의 다양한 경로로부터 발견한 방식을 기반으로 작업의 개념과 주제의식에 따라 광범위한 매체를 실험해본다.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 ‘Three Worlds' Dialogue’, Oil Tank Culture Park - T1 Glass Pavilion, Seoul, Korea
2019 ‘The old man was dreaming about the lions’, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
2018 ‘The Door into Summer’ (Random Access Project), Nam June Paik Art Center - Mezzanine Space, Yongin, Korea
‘The Trace of the Box’, Archive Bomm, Seoul, Korea
2016 ‘Worldling’s Dialogue’, Space O’newwall-E’juheon (SEMA-Emerging Artists), Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions or ScreeningsⓈ (online *)
2023 ‘Nature Human: fragile+true blue’[Duo Exhibition], Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea
‘22th Bienal SESC_VideoBrasil’, Sesc 24 de Maio, Sao Paulo, Brazil
‘Post Media and Site’, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
‘Madang: Embracing You’, Suwon Museum of Art, Suwon, Korea
‘It was the way of walking through narrative’, Frieze Film - Boan 1942 Art Space, Seoul, Korea
‘Hybrid-Ground’, Zaha Museum, Seoul, Korea
'Not Paintings’, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
‘13th Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival’, Heart of Hawick, Scottish Borders, UKⓈ
2022 ‘48th Seoul Independent Film Festival(SIFF)’, Apgujeong CGV, Seoul, KoreaⓈ
‘20th Festival international Signes de Nuit’, Maison du Mexique, Paris, FranceⓈ
‘No time to spare’, Topgoal Museum, Seoul, Korea
‘My Sleep’, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
‘From Now to Now‘, Ulsan Contemporary Art Festival - Arioso Gallery, Ulsan, Korea
‘ACC Cinematheque X Jeonju Intl. Film Festival’, ACC - Theater 3, Gwangju, KoreaⓈ
‘Exposition of Music, Do it Together!’, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
‘Transfigured Boundaries’, Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City, MexicoⓈ
’23th Jeonju Intl. Film Festival’’, Jeonju, KoreaⓈ
‘Why not Korea?’, Universidad de Malaga, Malaga, Spain
2021 ‘11th Balneário Camboriú International Film Festival(FICBC)’, Arthousbc, Santa Catarina, BrazilⓈ
‘Cave, Querencia and Moon’[Duo Exhibition], Art Space Eonju Round, Seoul, Korea
‘11th Aesthetica Short Film Festival’, National Centre for Early Music, York St John University, York, UK Ⓢ
‘6th The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image’, New York, USA Ⓢ*
‘47th, 48th Athens International Film +Video Festival(AIFVF)’, Athena Cinema, Ohio, USA Ⓢ
‘5th Photometria International Photography Festival – Photometria in Motion’, Dim. Hatzis, Ioannina, Greece Ⓢ
‘MoCA Collection #1’, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, Korea
‘Screening Project : The storyteller’, Wooran Foundation, Seoul, Korea Ⓢ
‘Un-Less’, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
'24th Brooklyn Film Festival', Brooklyn, USA Ⓢ*
'Catastrophe and Recovery', National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
‘As to the beasts’, Hapjungjigu, Seoul, Korea
'11th Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival', Scottish Borders, UK Ⓢ*
'Compatibility Begins', SamGakMountain Geumam Museum, Seoul, Korea
2020 ‘10th Balneário Camboriú International Film Festival(FICBC)’, Santa Catarina, Brazil Ⓢ*
‘46th Seoul Independent Film Festival(SIFF)’, Seoul, Korea Ⓢ
‘London Korean Film Festival x Lux Moving Image(LKFF x LUX)’, London, UK Ⓢ*
‘Spain Moving Images Festival(SMIF)’, Madrid, Spain Ⓢ*
‘Psarokokalo international short film festival’, Athens, Greece Ⓢ
‘Fluent Stutter’, d/p, Seoul, Korea
‘Collecting for All’, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
‘2020 Collection: Confronting Today’s Questions, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, Korea
‘The Parallel Universes of Prufrock’, RAINBOWCUBE gallery, Seoul, Korea
2019 ‘OVNI Objectif Video Nice Festival d’art video 2019 - Video Landscape’, Nice, France
‘Underground Observatory; Here’s the Aleph’, Space22 Ikseon, Seoul, Korea
‘Seoul International New Media Festival 19th, Seoul, Korea Ⓢ
‘Dear Cinema: Difference and Repetition’, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Ⓢ
‘2018 SeMA New Collection 4913, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
‘Out of Place’, Subhashok The Arts Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
2018 ‘The Public Arts Project 2018: Ring Ring Belt’, Donuimun Open Creative Village, Seoul, Korea
‘OVNI Objectif Video Nice Festival d’art video 2018 – Video Portrait’, Nice, France
‘Tomorrow Without Tomorrow’, Boan 1942, Seoul, Korea
‘Carving of Conception Dream’, Gyoha Public Library, Paju, Korea
‘SEFF’, Korea Film Archive, Seoul, Korea Ⓢ
‘Out of Place’, The Korea Foundation, Asean Culture House, Seoul, Busan, Korea
‘Seoul International New Media Festival 18th’, Seoul, Korea Ⓢ
‘The Stream X Screening’, Sinchon Theatre, Seoul, Korea Ⓢ
‘EMAF – Video Portrait’, Ehwa Womans University, Seoul, Korea
‘Flip Book: The Revolutionary Animation of the 21th Century’, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
‘Exhibition of Exhibition of Exhibition’, Cecil Theater, Seoul, Korea Ⓢ
2017 ‘Hidden 3rd zone’, One and J. gallery, Seoul, Korea
‘A story collecting house’, Memory Talk House, Sunjam52, Seoul, Korea
‘Something New’, Aram art Museum, Goyang, Korea
‘Dove Audio & Video Festival’, Sewoon Basement, Seoul, Korea
‘Video Portrait’, Total Museum for Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
‘Short Movie Club’, Azgur Memorial Muzeum, Minsk, Belarus Ⓢ
2016 ‘Mistaken Empathy: Delightful Encounter’, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
‘9th CineToro Experimental Film Festival’, Valle del cauca, Colombia Ⓢ
‘18th FESTCURTAS BH’, Minas Gerais, Brazil Ⓢ
‘Slices-On Time’, Villa Romana, Florenz, Italy
‘CINE A LA CALLE International Short Film Festival’, Barranquilla, Colombia Ⓢ
‘European Media Art Festival’, Osnabruck, Germany Ⓢ
2015 ‘Media Project, Archive Review’, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
‘Mother, My First Love’, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
‘AR-Towns Art Festival’, A garbage incineration plant, NASN, Seoul, Korea
‘Seoul International New Media Festival 15th’, Seoul, Korea
2014 ‘The Field of M, Art Project’, Non-Bat Art Space, Kyunggi Culture Foundation, Paju, Korea
‘Parkowanie Art Festival’, A Kuku Sztuka, Gdansk, Poland Ⓢ
2013 ‘Ghost live in our house’, Space Ggul, Seoul, Korea
2012 ‘Media Project: The Unbound Archive’, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Selected Grants, Awards
2020 Spain Moving images Festival(SMIF), The Best Experimental Film, Madrid, Spain
2019 Han Nefkens Foundation – Buk SeMA Korean Video Art Production Award 2019, Han Nefkens Foundation, Spain
2015 Glocal Contest Grand Prize, Seoul International New Media Festival 15th, Seoul, Korea
2012 Arko Art Center Media Archive Selected, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Public Collections
Seo-Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
Daegu Art Museum, Korea
Han Nefkens Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Government Art Bank, Korea
Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Education
Mujin Jung
2003 B.F.A., Dept. of Creative Writing, Myongji University, Seoul, Korea
Hyoyoung Jung
2006 B.F.A., Dept. of Sculupture, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
2011 M.F.A., Dept. of Sculupture, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
Youngdon Jung
2014 B.F.A., Dept. of Fine Art Photography, Chung-Ang University, Korea
2019 M.F.A., Dept. of Fine Art Photography, Chung-Ang University, Korea
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Contact
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moojinbrothers@gmail.com
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